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Spiv’s Progress 19: Although I knew a thing or two, I knew Joe would be a good back-stop and might show me something new .at backstop (n.) under back, adj.2
Spiv’s Progress 19: Although I knew a thing or two, I knew Joe would be a good back-stop and might show me something new . Spiv’s Progress 120: Rosy’s a bad un - she and her black bumper .at bumper, n.1
Spiv’s Progress 34: What about doing a bust, eh, Bonzo, are you game? at bust, n.
Spiv’s Progress 173: I do all the work and you sit back and take the profit. I take the can back .at carry the can (for) (v.) under can, n.1
Spiv’s Progress 9: He had the usual tramp’s hand-out of chin straps and cat’s-meat - in other words pieces of bacon and meat that the grocer and butcher don’t want .at chinstrap, n.2
Spiv’s Progress 47: I’ll give you a chip for it [i.e. a counterfeit pound note] .at chip, n.2
Spiv’s Progress 62: This was a meeting place of the underworld - screwsmen, conmen, dragmen, pimps, prostitutes, etc .at dragsman (n.) under drag, n.1
Spiv’s Progress 9: There’s a brick-kiln further up, just off the main drag .at main drag, n.
Spiv’s Progress 9: I’m going to drum up first .at drum up, v.1
Spiv’s Progress 8: Having in a drum up, mate? at drum-up, n.
Spiv’s Progress 110: He was an old-timer of the high toby [...] an aristocrat of the tinkers, a commercial traveller in penny knick-knacks .at high-toby, n.
Spiv’s Progress 9: Only about thirty miles, and hoofed most of it .at hoof, v.
Spiv’s Progress 39: I’ve got about half a quid to see me through [...] I even went to the jam roll for a helping.at jam roll, n.
Spiv’s Progress 22: There in the wall [...] I saw an oblong shape of grey-green steel. This was the peter .at peter, n.3
Spiv’s Progress 12: I [...] got the grub while you’ve been sawing them off.at saw them off (v.) under saw, v.
Spiv’s Progress 175: After a drink all round, he dug in his pocket for another shout .at shout, n.
Spiv’s Progress 47: I knew a spiv in Old Compton Street [...] he asked me if I wanted to make a bit of easy dough [Ibid.] 202: They were spivs [...] They lived by all manner of tricks, matching their wits against the public and keeping out of the hands of the police .at spiv, n.
Spiv’s Progress 32: I didn’t have time to light a cigarette before I was accosted by a tapper who said, ‘Got a fag, mate?’ .at tapper, n.1
Spiv’s Progress 10: How long you been on the toby, mate? at on the toby under toby, n.2
Spiv’s Progress 9: Stop and have a bit of tommy .at tommy, n.2
Spiv’s Progress 42: ‘Well, you’ve got me beat, if you’re not on the town,’ I said to Gladys .at on the town under town, n.2
Spiv’s Progress 77: Lo, Pete[...] Come for your wooden overcoat? at wooden overcoat (n.) under wooden, adj.
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